As Tokina guys said - those lenses are solely designed by Pentax, optical elements and coatings will be 100% identical for both Samsung and Pentax. Tokina lenses will have the very same optical elements (and coatings), but NOT Pentax electronics. Nowadays those "chips" are quite important...
BR, Margus Joseph Tainter wrote: >Also, all three new Pentax DA* lenses will be produced under D-Xenon >"brand" too. Designed by Pentax, manufactured by Tokina, sponsored by >Samsung :) > >BR, Margus > >----- > >So the S-K versions of these lenses will be made for Samsung by Tokina? >Is this the case for all S-K lenses? > >Margus, are you sure about this information? > >If true, it might make some sense--since Pentax is so strapped right now >for lens manufacturing capacity. > >This is important, because the Tokina version of the 12-24 does not test >as well as the Pentax version. Samsung versions of K-mount lenses might >now be as good as the Pentax versions. > >Joe > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
